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In a program at the Thermal Spray Laboratory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, both conventional gas-stabilized plasma and high-throughput water-stabilized plasma spray torches are being used to produce thick free-standing structures of oxide ceramics, metal-reinforced ceramic laminates, and multilayered or functionally graded ceramic materials. The results of the processing, microstructure, and properties of freeforms produced from ceramics in the alumina, zirconia, and alumina-zirconia system are reported.
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Sampath, S., Gansert, R. & Herman, H. Plasma-spray forming ceramics and layered composites. JOM 47, 30–33 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03221281
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